Since it launched in 1979, Summit has been committed to the green movement,” says Jane Sieberts of the Monterey, California–based outdoor furniture company
founded by her late husband, Bill. “At first Bill planned to have
everything made in Thailand, but then he moved production to
Indonesia, where the wood could be certified.” Sieberts, who studied design
at UCLA, took over as owner and president of Summit in 2001, when Bill retired,
and the company now has showrooms in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London
and Monaco. Every Summit piece is made in central Java of the finest quality
teak wood, “the top one percent,” Sieberts notes. “A finished piece looks as
good on the underside as from above, and everything is made and hand-finished in the same factory we’ve been in for many years.”